I was sitting back in the bedroom in my easy chair, watching Bill Gaither and his quartet, they were joined by Ernie Haase and his Signature Sound group. The curtains were drawn, it was rather dark, nice, quiet atmosphere, and they started singing America, "Oh Beautiful, for spacious skies," and I was completely wrapped up in their beautiful rendition.........
I got completely carried away by the song, it was beautiful ........... and then I started wondering, how much longer will this country, as we know it, exist, and I started remembering, thinking, about my life in this country, how blessed we all are, and the tears started falling. I could not hold them back.
We have so much, and we are seeing it being eroded, perhaps more than we realize, and we are not even aware of it. Look what lies ahead at the rate we are going.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
I admit it, I cried, real, genuine tears, tears for what I am seeing happen to our Country. I have much, much more behind me, than I have ahead of me. I just hope that we can still be proud of our Country, listen to that song, and have it bring a tear ......
